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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTransportation Board - Minutes - 05/20/1998CITY OF FORT COLLINS TRANSPORTATION BOARD MINUTES MAY 20,1998 The meeting of the Transportation Board was called to order at 5:47 p.m. in the CIC room of City Hall West, 300 LaPorte Avenue. BOARD MEMBERS present were: Mark Egeland, Dan Gould, Donn Hopkins, Steve Hannah, Alan Beatty, Paul Permutter, Chris Ricord, and Tim Johnson. IN ATTENDANCE were: Randy Hensley, Cam McNair, Gary Diede, Tom Frazier, and Gerry Gavaldon. APPROVAL OF MINUTES There was a motion and a second to approve the April 15,1998 Transportation Board regular meeting minutes as presented. Page 4 TRASH DISTRICT corrections: 1) 31 paragraph, the motion carried 9-1, not 8-1. 2) Hannah added that the reason he dissented was his concern that free competition wasn't being protected. The minutes were approved unanimously as corrected. Cam McNair, new City Engineer, was introduced to the Board. Hensley requested an agenda item change, stating that at the Transportation Funding Sub- committee meeting, the committee previewed the transportation funding calculator that the Transportation Funding Advisory Committee is using and it was agreed by the sub -committee that it would be a good idea to show the calculator to this Board. After item IV, Hensley would like to conduct a brief demonstration of the calculator for 15- 20 minutes. The Board granted the request. DISCUSSION ITEMS: I. OPERATIONS ISSUES & FUNDING - Hensley/Frazier Hensley said that he would go over the financial needs in the Operations area of transportation. For background information, he reminded the Board that there are three major functional areas: Capital, Operations and Maintenance. The City Manager commissioned a Transportation Funding Advisory Committee (TFAC) to look at funding issues last fall. The first exercise the TFAC went through was an examination of capital needs, specifically street oversizing changes. That exercise has been completed. Next, the TFAC agreed to look at the needs in the maintenance and operation areas together. E TRANSPORTATION BOARD REGULAR MEETING MINUTES MAY 20, 1998 PAGE 2 The purpose of the discussion tonight is to bring the Transportation Board up to speed on the TFAC's activities. Frazier will do a presentation later that will focus on the transit needs as transit is the largest chunk of the Operations funding gap. Hensley proceeded with an overhead presentation to the Board explaining the difference in figures. The following are the highlights of that presentation. Some items were funded in the budget process. Original estimates from early 1997 were updated. Duplicate items were removed from the list. Most of the funds in the operations for Transportation come from the General Fund - 42%. The bulk of that is in the transit system. The Work for Others program is an internal bookkeeping mechanism where one part of City government does work for another City department and this allows for the exchange of funds through the budget process. Southside Shuttle - Frazier said that the shuttle was partially funded by the City with some assistance from private companies in 1989. Today, the City pays for the lion's share. There are enough funds to carry the shuttle through to June 30 of this year, and new businesses on Harmony may commit to sharing the cost, but little is known at this point as to when this funding assistance will begin. Frazier will be taking this issue to Ron Phillips and the City Manager to develop a solution to the impending funding shortfall. 2000-2002 Transit Development Plan (TDP) - There is a $6 M shortfall to fully implement the TDP. This includes increasing the level of frequency on almost all the routes, adding new routes to the front range, and adding evening service throughout the community. Frazier went over the transit system's history in Fort Collins beginning in 1973. He went over changes that need to happen in order to meet City Plan objectives. There was a lengthy discussion about the TDP. Hensley asked Frazier to do an overview of the Master Street Plan development. Frazier complied. Johnson asked what the 1998 advertising revenues look like. Frazier responded that approximately $40,000 is projected. TRANSPORTATION BOARD REGULAR MEETING MINUTES MAY 20, 1998 PAGE 3 II. BUILDING COMMUNITY CHOICES - Johnson - Distribution of funds Johnson referred to the memo included in the packet. The point of the letter was to ask the Council to look real hard at the General Fund in terms of transferring dollars over and that we started 1998 quite a bit behind 1997 in terms of pavement management. The program needs $5 M to maintain the condition index of the streets in the city at the level that they are right now. Staff would like to maintain a pavement condition index level of 75 which is on the border between good and fair. The $5 M is needed in order to do that. III. TRANSPORTATION FUNDING TEAM - Hensley Hensley said that the memo was included in the packets because it is a good reference. It answers many questions that have come up. He cautioned that the Comparative Transportation Funding Information chart, page 3, is not all inclusive and the specific numbers should not be taken out of context. The information presented does not necessarily compare apples to apples. IV. TRASH DISTRICTING - Johnson Johnson said that the basic point of the memo to the Mayor and Council is to save street maintenance money by using one hauler in a given district. The Board advises that the City must be thorough in finding ways to reduce long term maintenance. $300,000 per year in maintenance could be saved by districting trash collection. A summary report will be forthcoming after soliciting feedback from the haulers themselves. V. FUNDING CALCULATOR - Hensley The "real-time" Transportation Funding calculator was shown on an overhead projector. It uses 19 funding types, allowing the user to plug in a number and see the yield immediately. The calculator is designed to assist the user in developing alternatives to meet the maintenance and operations funding gaps. VI. BOARD MEMBER REPORTS Various board members presented reports on their recent activities. Chris Ricord stated that he would bring his health and safety issue before the Board at the next meeting since he was seeking Board action and a quorum was missing at that time. TRANSPORTATION BOARD REGULAR MEETING MINUTES MAY 20, 1998 PAGE 4 VI. STAFF REPORTS Frazier distributed the Transit in University Communities conference information to each Board Member. John Daggett has been working on this event that promises to be very useful. McNair distributed hand-outs on current City Engineering projects. He went over the list briefly with the Board. Diede went over the current Transportation Planning projects. There were a few questions related to the scope of work of some of the projects Diede mentioned. Frazier mentioned that June is Bike Month and all sorts of activities are planned. Next Month's Agenda: Updates on NE Truck Route Study, Mason Street Corridor, conceptual designs for the new parking structure, and Rick Richter will talk about new standards for construction licensing. He asked if there was anything to add. OTHER BUSINESS There being no other business, the meeting adjourned at 8:40 p.m. Cindy L. Scott Administrative Aide